Frater Mus @ fratermus @lemmy.sdf.org

Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Angel
• the Night Stalker (70s-era occult/neo-noir) Edit: holy crap, there was a mid-2000s remake of the series and whole season is on youtube.

I'm seeing a pattern here...

Snow Crash is on my "to read" list. I keep running into references to it.

Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (project gutenberg)

It's slow going because of the archaic style, but will be a revelation to anyone who thinks Smith doesn't care about humanity.

Superpower: catching dropped objects in mid-air, including objects dropped by other people standing near me.

Unfortunately it's a function of hypervigilance, which is quite hard on my nerves.

I finished Machine Learning (short story anthology) by Hugh Howey about an hour ago, so pretty fresh.

What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

• "They're your family so you have to maintain a relationship with them'
• "man up"
• attend church

What goes good with American Cheese?

diabetes

I heard a podcast episode about a guy who homebrewed insulin in an area of Nazi occupation and saved a bunch of people. Warsaw ghetto perhaps?

Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”?

I withhold downvotes until it means "this is disinformation, or misinformation so wrong-headed it could mislead those new to the topic"

"Specialization is for insects. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." -- Heinlein

in terms of time I spend in it:

• linux
• firefox
• vi

So it became ubiquitous because it was ubiquitous.

IMO it became ubiquitous because it was a superset of the already-ubiquitous Bourne shell.

What’s it like working night shift?

• constant fatigue
• constantly explaining to the same people over and over that you are not available in the daytime because that's when you sleep

source: worked night shift for many years

He’s absolutely correct.

He said it was racist, so I'm gonna stick with he's not correct.

The mistake that you are making, is thinking that all forms of discrimination are bad.

I am aware of the formal and common uses of the word.

I used to watch the eps quickly, now I have a bunch in the backlog I am not even thinking about.

I would know because I have a PHD

Also "I'm an engineer". People with specific vocational training (EE, MD, whatever) think because they know one thing well enough to get a professional license they know all things well.

I once had a b2b customer (store owner) tell me that having different pricing for wholesale and retail customers was racist.

I'm pretty sure meant discriminatory but even that doesn't make much sense.

113F in Dallas Tx, in 1980.
-15F in [the former west] Germany, Jan 1985

• tmux
• screen
• autossh
• mosh
• rsync

Emojis make everything worse, everywhere